Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 19:58:31 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: brian@MediaCity.com Cc: phk@FreeBSD.org (Poul-Henning Kamp), karl@mcs.com, grog@lemis.de, hackers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: PONY UP! (was: The -stable problem: my view) Message-ID: <16211.834202711@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 07 Jun 1996 19:43:12 PDT." <199606080243.TAA19029@MediaCity.com>
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> > success and dependencies on FreeBSD that have sent an email to > > -core saying, "Hi, we owe you people something, what can we do for > > you in return ?" > > FreeBSD has long been promoted as free. It is hard for me to imagine > how the word "owe" can be associated with the word "free". But then, > here in the US, I've run into alot of "free" things in which you > really "owe". So perhaps I am out-of-step with the modern meaning > of the word free. I don't think that's what phk intended to say, and if you read that paragraph of his again I think you'll see that he's paraphrasing some ficticious person saything that _they_ feel they owe something. The different is rather stark. > For the benefit of the aged, like myself, perhaps you could > change the name. 8-) Or, for the benefit of those who are poor of eyesight, like yourself, we should simply send out these mailings in larger type. :-) Jordan
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